Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1909 (Heft 27))

P.s.—I hear there’s another show at the same place, by another Spaniard,
called Slargar. Nobody seems to care and nobody of any account goes.
P.P.S.—Jack peeped over my shoulder. He says it’s Zuloaga. Then he
went up in the air, and said this fellow was a bigger man than Sorolla—a more
versatile technician—a higher type of mind—a psychologist! Jack’s getting
awfully pedantic since he joined the “Playmates.” I told him so, and he got
hot, and I got hot and told him to go, and the silly darling has gone!!!
P.P.P.S.—Big box of candy just come. The dearest note, signed “ Jack. ”
“ Don’t let us quarrel over a little thing like Art. ”
Charles H. Caffin.

PHOTO-SECESSION NOTES
ETCHINGS BY ALLEN LEWIS
FOR two weeks, beginning February twenty-sixth, the walls of
the Little Gallery were occupied by etchings and book-plates, the
work of Allen Lewis, a young American artist who now lives in
New York after having spent seven years in Paris. In this age
of superficiality and scepticism, where the chief interest of artists
is to record the mere externals of life; where graceful lines and
pleasing spotting are sufficient aims in themselves, it is singularly refreshing
to come across the work of a man who seems to have kept himself un-
touched by the modern spirit of indifference to the philosophy of life; and
who combines a remarkable feeling for composition with a seriousness
of purpose and a simple faith reminiscent of the spirit of the old German
masters.
A feature of the Lewis exhibition was the special catalogue which the
artist designed and printed.
DRAWINGS BY PAMELA COLMAN SMITH
The opening of Miss Smith’s exhibition of drawings in monochrome and
color was marked by an entertainment offered to her Secessionistic friends
at 291 Fifth Avenue on the evening of March sixteenth. Those who attended
were delighted by her recital of West Indian nursery tales and her chanting
of ballads by the Irish poet, Yeats. Her new work, visions evoked by music,
sketched during the concert or opera, testifies to the inexhaustible resources
of her imagination and her untiring productiveness. This exhibition is more
fully dealt with by Mr. de Casseres elsewhere in this number of Camera Work.
SKETCHES IN OIL BY MAURER AND WATER-COLORS BY MARIN
The work of two Americans now living in Paris is on view at the Little
Gallery at the present writing. John Marin’s water-colors have been pro-

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